Roe Conn, who spent 25 years on the air at WLS-AM 890, has a new radio address. Conn confirmed Tuesday he has signed an agreement to host weekdays from 3 to 7 p.m. on Tribune Media’s WGN-AM 720.
The deal was inked over the weekend and Conn is...

Get ready to ring in the new year with WGN-AM 720 on the FM band. But don't get used to it.
WGN's AM signal will be simulcast on 87.7 FM beginning Wednesday night at 11 p.m., filling the programming void left by the imminent demise of sports talk station...

The Chicago Cubs and Tribune Media's WGN-Ch.9 confirmed Thursday that they have reached a new five-year agreement to broadcast 45 games annually beginning with the upcoming 2015 season.
The announcement keeps intact a broadcast partnership that dates to...

When The Game 87.7, WGN's short-lived foray into FM sports talk radio, ends its run in December, its hosts will have to find a new home to rant about defenseless Bears, hobbled Bulls and capricious station management.
But what happens post-Game?
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Burst pipes at Tribune Tower knocked WGN-AM 720 off the air for 20 minutes during the 6 a.m. hour of the Steve Cochran show.
The water streamed down from the ninth floor, where the pipes burst, and reached the radio studios on the seventh floor, causing the interruption at the start of morning drive Tuesday, according to WGN President Jimmy de Castro.
"The actual signal was knocked off for 20 minutes, and we're lucky ... that the engineers were able to get us back on," de Castro said.
Tribune Tower, at...

Game over.
Nine months after the bosses of WGN-AM 720 launched Chicago's first FM sports/talk station, they're throwing in the towel on the ambitious but unprofitable venture. Tribune Media will cease programming on WGWG-LP 87.7, known as The Game 87.7 FM, at the end of the year, insiders said Thursday.
Also out, effective immediately, are former WGN personalities Jonathon Brandmeier and Garry Meier. Brandmeier's morning show aired on The Game 87.7 and the online streaming site wgn.fm. Meier's afternoon...

The decision to pull the plug on FM sports talk radio station The Game on Thursday after nine months on the air was not an easy one for WGN-AM 720 president Jimmy de Castro.
It was even harder on staffers, including at least one who found out while on the air, venting his frustration to listeners.
But with Chicago radio revenues declining this year and WGWG-LP 87.7 unable to turn a profit, de Castro said WGN Radio needed to cut its losses.
"The market is way off and the economics won't support us,"...

The Chicago Cubs think they have 2020 vision. It's not as clear as they believe. That's what happens when you spend too much time staring at the television.
And now it's going to be all about the television.
The Cubs are talking about the TV windfall they expect to realize beginning in the year 2020 as if it's the catalyst for turning from perennial also-rans into consistent World Series contenders, the same way they used to talk about the money that would roll in if only they could just gain approval...

When Kevin Metheny became program director of WGN-AM 720 in 2008, he brought with him a lengthy resume, a reputation for being controversial and a clear mission — shake up programming at a Chicago radio institution and grow its audience.
The rebuilding process was, by most accounts, a failure, with key personalities exiting the station amid growing resentment from some longtime listeners. Mr. Metheny's rocky tenure at WGN was over in less than two years.
But the well-traveled program director,...

Kevin Metheny -- the former WGN-AM 720 program director whose abrupt moves to grow the station's audience grew a well of resentment among some long-time listeners before his 2010 departure just shy of two years on the job -- died Friday. He was 60.
Mr. Metheny, immortalized by multimedia star Howard Stern first on the air and in his best-selling book "Private Parts" as "Pig Virus" and then caricatured as part of a composite character called "Pig Vomit" in the movie version of Stern's memoirs, was most...